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Many people have had the same experience over the past year. There's three things that are usually suggested which might help you, that you've touched upon. First, you should have …

First of all I should think copyright only restricts publishing, not reading. Obviously if you put a price on your book I have to pay it, but that's a different issue. Secondly the…

Yeah, same. I find keeping my fingers on the home keys makes me twist my wrists outwards, which gets uncomfortable pretty fast. I mostly try to minimise wrist action in general. I'…

Start every update and delete with BEGIN; and never fret again.

Octopuses have been around for 300 million years, I think they've got survival and reproduction covered at this point. I would be careful of conflating shared culture with intellig…

> I'm usually surprised with all the comparisons to REST. I'd say that's because you should mentally substitute RPC whenever you see REST. Basically everyone talking about REST API…

Although you can be pro break-up-Google while using one, or even many, of their services. So I don't really see the amusement.

You aren't limited to a single database though, so you could stream your main database to a public facing one with a more stable structure. But you'd have to handle changes through…

In my view libraries are simply evolving with the times, but perhaps I'm not yet quite so old after all. I like the idea that there's a public space for soldering, 3D printing, sow…

Aside from K&R, you might want to look at the Modern C PDF https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/modern-c-is-now-fea... for an opinionated but sane guide. Also 21st Century C ha…

Can you expound on that? What would you wish to know?

Can you please specify how life is different? I feel lucky not to have noticed.

There is no such thing as >40 terms of 18th century life expectancy. What a ridiculous notion.

Democracy has nothing to do with it. But yes, it's how most if not all governments operate.